
Outrate Online Short Film Festival - WINNER
ANNOUNCED!
Oscar
nominees, award-winning authors, playwrights and directors of gay
and lesbian film festivals comprised our judging panel this year and as
well, we gave away around $1,000 in prizes up for grabs.
One
film took the first prize and the nine others took out awards as well.
Find out all about it here

INTERVIEW: PAUL BURSTON
The
ubiquity of bareback porn presents unsafe sex as just another gay
lifestyle choice, no different than choosing between Calvin Klein or
Aussiebum underwear. ...
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REVIEW: MILK
Penn is one of those actors in complete control of his entire
instrument. He uses voice, body movements, line readings and something
indefinable within his own psyche to transmigrate into another person's
body and mind. Franco, meanwhile, demonstrates the dilemma of a person
who signed up for a committed relationship but not necessarily a
revolution
... [more]
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REVIEW: SHELTER
For
a gay indie, this is next-to-excellent. Kudos for a lack of any creepy
voyeurism from the camera too, with just one fleeting glance from Zach
at a studly surfer stripping out of his wetsuit, and just the very odd
shot of the naked lovers, usually shot in close up and focusing on the
emotion, not the pecs ... [more]
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FEATURE: GENET MEETS FASSBINDER: SEXUAL
(DIS)ORIENTATIONS IN QUERELLE)
When
the titular hero of Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest" allows himself to
be fucked for the first time by Nono, the owner of the near-legendary
brothel La Feria, he intends it as a sort of self-punishment, a
metaphorical death that will allow him to be purged of guilt for his
recent murder of a friend and fellow opium smuggler ... [more]
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